La Madre Muerta : El mito matricida en la literatura y el cine espanoles Paperback / softback
by Maria Asuncion Gomez
Part of the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series
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Drawing on feminist psychoanalysis and Greek mythology, La madre muerta explores how matricide and unconscious matricidal fantasies have been portrayed in Spanish narrative, drama, and film.
The book examines individual and social perceptions regarding gendered subjectivity, the operation of power relations, gender violence, and the economies of desire.
It provides a comparative study of different theoretical approaches to matricide and a close reading of five films, three novels, and two plays.
This study attempts to unveil the mechanisms by which the matricidal myth has been introduced and continues operative in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spanish literature and film.
Gómez claims that the absence of a positive symbolic mediation with the maternal body is detrimental for the configuration of gendered identities.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2016
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- ISBN:9781469630724
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781469630724
